CREA
- New Delhi, India
- Global
- creaworld.org
- CREA's YouTube
Channel Focus Areas:
Women’s Leadership and Human Rights Institutes
Securing Sexual & Reproductive Rights/Justice
Mission:
CREA builds feminist leadership, strengthens movements, challenges unjust power structures, expands sexual and reproductive freedoms, and advances the human rights of structurally excluded people.
Impact:
CREA is one of the few international women’s rights organizations based in the Global South, led by Southern feminists, which works at the grassroots, national, regional, and international levels.
Together with partners from a diverse range of human rights movements and networks, CREA works to advance the rights of women and girls, and the sexual and reproductive freedoms of all people by building leadership capacities of activists and allies; strengthening organizations and social movements; creating and increasing access to new information, knowledge, and resources; and enabling supportive social and policy environments.
CREA has been a leader in integrating and centering disability rights in all its work, its convenings and institutes.
One of CREA’s greatest competencies is to build the capacity of individuals and organizations that advocate for human rights. Every year CREA organizes a range of Institutes and trainings that gather leaders across the fields of sexuality, gender, rights, feminist leadership, movement building and sexual and reproductive health and rights.
These Institutes are conducted across India, South and South East Asia, East Africa and the Middle East. The first Institute was held in 2002, and there are now over 7,000 Institute alumni in over 70 countries across the world.
CREA has collected info on their 25 years of impact here and makes clear that their work "is not only about numbers but about everything we do and how we do it. Impact takes place when shifts occur. From individual to collective levels, from structural to norms levels. When it comes to social justice goals — complex and requiring long-term investment of time and resources — we focus on critical types of shifts and their how and their so what."
Channel Grants:
2021-24: Channel made a three year general operating grant to CREA to support their work implementing programmatic interventions aimed at expanding sexual and reproductive health, strengthening feminist leadership, and advancing human rights of all structurally excluded people. Additionally, this grant also supports CREA’s institutionalized learning strategy and workplan.
2011–2020: Channel made annual grants between 2011 and 2020 to support the participation of several participants in CREA’s global Sexuality, Gender and Rights Institute (SGRI) and the East Africa-focused Feminist Leadership and Movement Building and Rights Institute (FLaMBaRI).
In 2020, CREA continued to customize and organize the Institutes and build on focused alumni engagement strategies in an effort to showcase the impressive work that alumni are doing on their own journeys, around the world.
CREA has run SGRI, an internationally acclaimed week-long institute that bring activists from around the world together to examine the links between sexuality, rights, gender, and health and their interface with socio-cultural and legal issues, since 2007. Participants critically analyze policy, research and program interventions using a rights-based approach.
CREA has convened FLaMBaRI, a week-long institute designed to strengthen feminist leadership, strategies and collective power for social transformation in Africa along with several African partners (including Akina Mama wa Afrika), since 2008. FLaMBaRI combines reflection on the current political landscape as well as past organizing strategies for women’s rights in Africa by using a trans-regional movement building approach.